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Ed Markey: “We do have a cap-and-trade system in the United States. We call it the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.”

On the recordJuly 21, 2014
We do have a cap-and-trade system in the United States. We call it the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey discusses the effectiveness of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

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